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Son of Alexander and Mary Walker, of Smith Avenue Central Park, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Cummings Walker
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cummings Walker
Grave of 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker who served with the 7th Battn. C.E.F.
He was born in Glasgow Scotland on Feb. 9th 1896. Robert enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vancouver BC on March 23rd 1915, he listed prior military service with the 72nd Reg. Canadian Militia, he also listed his occupation as "Clerk". Robert died at Vancouver BC of the Spanish Flu on Feb. 6th 1919 just 3 days short of his 22nd birthday. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cummings Walker
Memorial Cross in the section where 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cummings Walker
Cemetery view of the section where 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cummings Walker
From the Vancouver Daily Province February 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cummings Walker
From the Vancouver Daily Province February 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Grave of 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker who served with the 7th Battn. C.E.F. He was born in Glasgow Scotland on Feb. 9th 1896. Robert enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vancouver BC on March 23rd 1915, he listed prior military service with the 72nd Reg. Canadian Militia, he also listed his occupation as "Clerk". Robert died at Vancouver BC of the Spanish Flu on Feb. 6th 1919 just 3 days short of his 22nd birthday. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
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Memorial Cross in the section where 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
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Cemetery view of the section where 429237 Pvt. Robert C. Walker was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC
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From the Vancouver Daily Province February 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Vancouver Daily Province February 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 544 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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